Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  General KeywordArtist KeywordTitle KeywordSubject KeywordObject Type KeywordOwner KeywordControl Number Keyword       Refine Search     Return to results > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Totten, Vicken Von Post,     Totten, George Oakley, Jr.,     Allegory -- Arts & Sciences     Travel     Landscape -- Celestial     Landscape -- Celestial     Ethnic -- Indian     Architecture -- Vehicle     Architecture -- Vehicle     Architecture -- Vehicle     Architecture -- Boat     Architecture -- Vehicle     Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Waterbury     Relief     Architectural component     Sculpture

(Post Office Reliefs), (sculpture). Artist:  Totten, Vicken Von Post, b. 1886, sculptor. Totten, George Oakley, Jr., architect. Title:  (Post Office Reliefs), (sculpture). Dates:  1932. Medium:  Limestone. Dimensions:  Each panel: approx. 2.5 ft. x 8 ft. x 1 in. Inscription:  (Lower right corner of each panel:) Vicken Von Post Totten 1932 signed Description:  Eleven relief panels depicting the history of transportation. The first panel depicts a globe surrounded by orbiting planets and stars. North and South America are also included in this panel. The second panel has nine birds flying toward a sunburst in the lower right-hand corner of the panel. The third panel depicts two Native Americans seated on the left side, and a Native American running towards them, with gift in outstretched hand. Fourth panel depicts a man and a woman waiting to receive a bag from a man on horseback. The fifth panel depicts a stagecoach and four horses. The sixth panel depicts a steam locomotive pulling three passenger cars and a freight car. The seventh panel has a small boat, a side wheeler, in rough water. The eighth panel depicts a large steamship in front of a cityscape and bridge. A train moves around a sweeping turn in the ninth panel. The tenth panel has an airplane flying into the sun. The eleventh panel is the same as the first panel. Subject:  Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Transportation Travel Landscape -- Celestial -- Star Landscape -- Celestial -- Sun Ethnic -- Indian Architecture -- Vehicle -- Carriage Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train Architecture -- Boat -- Riverboat Architecture -- Vehicle -- Airplane Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Waterbury Relief Architectural component Sculpture Owner:  United States Postal Service, Building Maintenance, 135 Grand Street, Waterbury, Connecticut Remarks:  Title supplied by Inventory cataloger. Bas-relief panels are set within the lower facade of a 15-bay, two-story Art Deco building. The designing architect of the Post Office building was George Oakley Totten, Jr. The panels were produced as part of the Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. The building is a part of the Cass Gilbert National Register Historic District. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS CT000173   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CT000173 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact